Translator device for hole combinations



Dec. 29, 1936. M. MAUL 2,065,854

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TRANSLATOR DEVICE FOR HOLE COMBINATIONS Filed Sept. 21, 1931 4 Sheets-Sheet 4 M af iga/ 16,2 lacbm we. M M f5? (2 b C d 4 0 0!; J76 f I! 7 7 Patented Dec. 29, 1936 UNITED STATES TRANSLATOR DEVICE FOR HOLE COMBINATIONS Michael Maul, Berlin-Johannisthal, Germany Application September 21, 1931, Serial No. 564,172 In Germany September 22, 1930 1 Claim.

The present invention relates to a novel method of controlling machinery by means of particular hole combinations, and to a novel translator mechanism being adapted to translate distinct hole combinations into single characters corresponding to the meaning of said particular hole combinations. In the translator for hole combinations of the kind herein described, provision is made to analyze the hole combinations by means of an electrical or mechanical analyzing mechanism and to translate the result of the analysis by means of the translator into a single controlling character, either in the form of the selection of one of a plurality of controlling 15 members or by the time differential release of a controlling impulse, and said single characters are in turn adapted to control certain different controlling operations in machinery.

Control of machinery by means of hole com- 20 binations is well known in the art; so for instance, hole combinations are used for the control of sorting and tabulating machines by means of perforated record cards, for the control of automatic typewriters and telegraphs, 25 and in many other instances. Accordingly the present invention which relates to novel hole combinations and novel means controlled thereby may also be used in connection with any machine which is to be differentially controlled 30 by the novel hole combinations still to be described.

According to the present invention controlling of machines is effected by means of hole combinations comprising single-positional holes and plural-positional holes as well as different combinations of said holes. For the explanation of the terms "single-positional holes and plural-positional holes it must be remembered that in known hole combinational sys- 40 tems predetermined hole positions are provided for the holes to be punched, each hole occupying however, only a single hole position so that such a hole may be designated as a single-positional hole and it will be seen that the known hole 5 combination systems are using only single positional holes. With the present invention, however, records such asperforated record cards or perforated record strips are used which include tional holes are preferably provided in the known manner as circular holes. The application 01' hole combinations of the before mentioned kind permits a considerable saving of paper material since for the representation of the same number 5 of distinct controlling characters less, hole positions are required than has been necessary heretofore. For the representation of the ten numerical characters a theoretical minimum of four hole positions was necessary heretofore and for the distinct representation of the thirty-six letter and numerical characters by the singlepositional hole system at least six hole positions are required. However, according to the present invention in the first instance only three and in the latter instance only five hole positions are necessary.

Accordingly, by means of the present invention controlling of machinery may be effected by' hole combinations having single-positional as well as plural-positional holes and different combinations of said holes, and for that purpose the invention provides means preferably in the form of translating means for use of the novel perforating system.

The invention permits also analysis of the novel hole combinations while they are in uninterrupted motion past the analyzing means whereby a higher operating speed is obtained. The control of the translator is effected under the influence of a perforation in each hole position and provision is also made to determine whether there exists a connection between several hole positions, i. e. whether the same are occupied by a plural-positional hole or not, and in the first instance the translator will receive an additional controlling impulse so thata different .resultant action exercised by the translator will be obtained than if the same had received controlling impulses from single-positional holes only.

It is therefore one of the main objects of the present invention to provide means for exploiting single-positional and plural-positional combina- 5 I fect at least thirty-six different controlling actions by means of hole combinations arranged within only five hole positions.

A further object is to provide electrical means for analyzing and translating single-positional as well as plural-positional holes.

A further object is to provide means responsive to perforations in predetermined hole positions occupying said positions as well as to the rib therebetween.

Still a further object of the invention is to pgovide a translator mechanism adapted to be c ntrolled by more controlling impulses than there are controlling hole positions.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will become obvious from the following specification and the annexed claim.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 shows the circuit diagram of a printing tabulating machine in connection with the registering mechanism corresponding 'to a single record column.

Fig. 2 shows the translator according to the present invention; the translator is used in connection with the tabulating machine shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 2a shows the mechanical part of the trans lator unit diagrammatically shown in Fig. 2.

Fig. 3 shows the scheme according to which the hole combinations are provided in the records controlling the translator according to the pres- Fig. 5 shows the perforation key for the representation of letters and numerals.

Fig. 6 shows a translator adapted to translate different hole combinational characters shown in Fig. 5 in different single controlling actions.

Fig. '7 shows a perforated record card for the control of the translator shown in Fig. 6 which may be provided in a printing tabulating machine adapted to print numerals as well as letters.

Fig. 8 shows a type bar which may be used for instance in a. tabulating machine controlled by means of the translator shown in Fig. 6.

Fig. 9 shows a type wheel as used for instance in telegraph apparatus which is adapted to print under the control of hole combinations by means of the translator shown in Fig. 6 upon a continuous record strip.

Fig. 1 shows the well known diagram of an electrical tabulating machine for hole combinations, said hole combgiations being translated by a translator mechanism into single impulses. The cards I I are fed from a stack of cards downwardly one by one by means of a feed knife, and are then fed by feed rollers I2 between the contact plate I3 and the analyzing brush I4, one brush being provided for each record column. In the drawings only a single analyzing brush I 4 is illustrated and the translator mechanism which is coordinated to said brush is shown in the form of a casing; the same means must, of course, be provided for each record column. Operation of the machine is started by closure of start contact I6, thereby establishing a current circuit over the tabulator motor I5 and relay II. By energization of motor relay IT a stick circuit for the tabulator motor I 5 will be established over the armature of relay I1 and cam contacts I8, the latter being closed-after the motor has started for operation. The cards are fed by the feed knife and the feed rollers I2 downwardly and close the card contact 22. The well known cam contacts I9 serve to establish a current circuit to the card contact 22 and control the energization of the 'relays 2|] and 2|. The contacts I9 close while the card passes under the brushes and therefore the relays 20, 2I may only be energized during the same time, andby means of the armature of relay 2| the contact plate I 3 is connected only during said period to the contacts I9, but only as long as the subsequent cards keep the contact- 22 closed. The contact 2!! controlled by relay 20 as well as contact I8 will-therefore open once during each machine cycle, however, not simultaneously but with a certain time difierence so that the current circuit of the motor I5 will normally be maintained over one of both contacts. However, if the last card has passed at 22. the relays 20 and 2| will not be energized due to the contact 22 now remaining open and the contact 20' of the relay 20 will then also be open when contact I8 is open so that the motor circuit is interrupted and the machine is stopped." Each analyzing brush I4 is connected to a translator mechanism or unit according to the present invention. This part 45 as well as a set of type 46-. During each machine cycle all control bars 44 are raised once by a reciprocating frame II and according to the meaning of the analyzed hole combination, the magnet 42 will be energized at different times thereby releasing the latched pawl 41 which will engage the teeth 48 of the control .bar 44, thereby stopping the same in its upward movement. At the end of each analyzing cycle the type being in printing position is impelled by the type hammer 49 towards the printing platen roller 50, and before the downward movement'of the various control bars 44 takes place the accumulator wheels 5I being pivotally mounted upona frame and having been disengaged from the ratchet frames 45, are rocked in engagement with the latter; consequently, upon the restoring movement of the control bar 44 (said movement taking place at the end of the machine cycle) the printed amount corresponding, of course, to the meaning of'the hole combination, will be entered into the accumulator wheel 5|. Provision has been made that about during the first fourth ing the last mentioned period the type bars are arrested in a moment corresponding to the meaning of the analyzed hole combinations so that the amounts corresponding to the hole combinations in the various record columns will be printed and accumulated.

A translator'mechanism adapted to be used in-connectioh with the machine shown in Fig.1 is illustrated more in detail in Figs. 2 and 2a, Fig.-

2a representing only a mechanical means of the translator unit shown diagrammatically in Fig. 2.

For the analysis and translation of the hole combinations there is provided for each record column an analyzing brush M as well as a translator unit which includes four translator magnets 68. Three of said magnets are designated by Roman numerals I-III in accordance with the three hole positions within which a hole combination may be represented as is clearly shownordinated controlling bar 83 having at its upper' end a plate 84 forming the armature of the magnet 68 and resting upon a shoulder of a lever 85 which is normally drawn by a spring 88 to the left against the plate 84. If the magnet 68 is instantaneously energized, the plate 84 and consequently the control bar 83 will be drawn upwardly and the spring 86 of the corresponding lever 85 will draw the latter to the left until a pin 88 fastened on said lever engages a nose 89 of a shift bar 98; accordingly, after deenergization of the magnet, the plate 84 will rest upon the upper edge of its lever 85 so that the shift contacts 9| still to be described which are connected to the bars 83 will remain in the shifted position. At the end of the operating cycle the magnet 35 will be energized due to the instantaneous .closure of the contact 33. The magnet 35 will then draw the shift bar 98 to the right so that the levers 85 will be rocked by means of the nose of the shift bar in clockwise direction and all upwardly drawn armature plates will drop under the influence of the springs 81 into the lower position shown in the drawings. The shift bars 83 are provided with shift contacts 9| which select, depending upon the adjustment of the bars 83 in different combinations, a single live line corresponding to the meaning of the analyzed hole combination, the circuit leading then from the line 88 to one of the ten lines 8|. The lines 8| terminate in contacts 94 of a commutator generally indicated at 92. The commutator 92 is analyzed by a contact arm 93 which connects once in each machine cycle the contacts 99- one by one with the common contact strip 95. The strip is connected over line 48 with the control magnet 42 coordinated to the respective record column and said magnet is then connected over line 4| (see also Fig. l) to the other side of the current source. The rotation of the arm 93 takes place in the course of the whole maline 8| selected by the translator so that in the previously describedmanner the accumulator and printing mechanism will be controlled accordingly. In each machine cycle only one of the lines 8| will receive current, according to the energize.- tion of the magnets 68 in diflerent combinations so that always only a single controlling impulse will be released. It will therefore be seen that depending upon the energization of the magnets 68 which has been efiectedin time differential combinations under the control of the brush l4, different controlling actions will take place.

The control of the four translator magnets 68 by means of hole combinations as shown in Figs. 3 and 4 in which each character requires only three hole positions, is effected in the following manner: The analyzing brush I4 is connected over line 21 (Fig. 2) with the contact strip 28 of a commutator comprising three contact pieces 38 and a contact arm 31 rotating once during each machine cycle. The arm 31 moves synchronously with the passage of the lower three hole positions of a card according to Fig. 4 past the contacts 38 so that in case one or more of the said three positions are perforated, a current circuit will be established through the perforation from the plate |3 over brush i4, line 21, contact strip 28 and arm 31 to the respective contact 38 on which the arm 31 passes in this moment, and from the contact 38 to the corresponding connecting line. The contacts 38 are connected by lines 8|, 62, 63 with the translator magnets 68-I, 88-11 and 6[|III which are in turn connected to a common back line 52. From the line 6| branches a line 66 leading to the lower plate of a plate spring contact 53 (see also Fig. 2a) while the upperplate of said contact is connected to the line 29 thereby connecting the same with the contact strip 28. To the line 62 leading to the magnet 68--II is a branch line 61 leading on the one hand to a contact 54 and on the other hand to a contact 55; the upper plate of the contact 54 is connected to a line 18 leading to the auxiliary magnet 68-X while the upper plate of the contact 55 is connected to the previously mentioned line 29. From the line 63 branches a line 69 leading to the lower plate of a plate spring contact 51 which is on the other hand connected by a line 68 with the lower plate of the plate spring contact 56 being under the control of the magnet 6||II; the upper plate of the contact 56 is connected to the line 18. To the magnets 60I, 68-II and 68III are pivotally mounted arms 39 which serve for the control of the contacts 53, 54, 55, 56 and 51. These arms are held in the position shown in Figs. 2 and 2a under the influence of springs coordinated thereto; if, however, a magnet becomes energized, its arm 39 will be drawn downwardly and will close the contact coordinated to the respective magnet. A

I will now describe how under the control of only three hole positions the control of four translator magnets 68 in different combinations can be effected. If the lowermost hole position I (see Fig. 3) of my record column is perforated, the magnet 68-1 will be energized over line 8| (Fig.

2) and will'raise its armature 84 which will then remain locked in the previously described way during the machine cycle; simultaneously with the energization of magnet 6||I-its arm 39 will be moved downwardly and thereby the contacts 53 and 54 will be closed. Upon closure of contact 53 the magnet 68I receives not only current from line 6| but also from the contact strip 28 over line 29, contact 53 and line .66. The branch current over 28, 29, 53, 66 unites with the current over 6| but has no further efiect upon the translator mechanism. Due to the closure of contact 54, the magnet 68-X will be connected through line 18 to the line 61. The line 61 is on the one hand connected to the contact 55. However, at the moment in which the lowermost I-position passes under the brush, the contact is open since the magnet -11 is not energized. On the other hand, the line 61 is connected to the line 62 which in this moment is open at the contact 30; consequently, the magnet 60-X can receive no current impulse over the closed contact 54. If new the card passes further downwardly, the magnet 60-1 will become deenergized since the arm 31 leaves the contact piece 30 of the line 6|. The magnet will receive no current over line 29 since through the rib between the holes of two subsequent hole positions the current supply over brush l4 has been interrupted. 1f the arm 31 has reached the contact 30 of the line 62 and if there is a hole in the 1I-position, the magnet 60-11 will be energized over the line 62, and the current will return in the previously described way over the common line 52 of all magnets 60. Through the energization of the magnet 60-11, its control bar 83 will be attracted and will be held in the locked position. Simultaneously with the energization of the magnet 60-11, however, the contacts 55 and 56 will be closed through the coordinated arm 39. The magnet 60-11 can now receive over the contact 55 and line 61 again abranch current from the line 29, said current uniting with the current coming from the line 62 but having no further eiiect upon the translator mechanism. However, the line 61 which is now in connection with the brush I4, is open at 54 since the magnet 60-1 has been deenergized even if there was a single-positional hole in the I-position; the magnet would only be energized if a plural-positional hole were present to which case will be referred later. Due to the closure of contact 56 upon energization of magnet 60-11, the line 10 will be connected to the line 68, this connection being however'of no influence since on the one hand the contact 54 is open and on the other hand also the contact 51 connected to the line 68 is open because upon analysis of the II-position the magnet 60-111 cannot have been energized. It now the arm 31 moves further, the magnet 60-11 will become deenergized supposing there was a single-positional hole in the II-position; said deenergization is eflected on the one hand by the arm 31 which leaves the line 62 and on the other hand by the fact that the hole in the II-pcsition leaves the brush 14 thereby insulating the same from the line and interrupting also the circuit over line 29, contact 55 and line 61 which could form a stick circuit for the magnet 60-11. It the III-position is in analyzing position, the arm 31 will connect the strip 28 with the line 63 and consequently the magnet 60-111 will be energized if there is a single positional hole in said position and the coordinated control bar 83 will be adjusted. Simultaneously with the energization of the magnet 60-111, the contact 51 will be closed so that the line 63 will be also connected to the line 68 which on the other hand is now open at the contact 56 since the magnet 60-11 has already been deenergized. Accordingly closure of contact 51 will be of no influence in this instance. 1

From the foregoing specification will be seen that the magnets 60-1, 60-11 and 60-111 are energized in exactly the same manner as determined by the single-positional holes of the positions I, 11 and III and that consequently thereof, also the control bars 63 will be adjusted accordingly. The energization of the magnets 60-1, 60-11 and 60-111 is now effected independently of the fact whether the perforation of a position forms a single-positional hole or.whether said perforation forms part of aplural-posltional hole. Since, however, according to the present invention a different controlling efiect must be caused depending upon the fact whether adjacent hole positions are occupied by single holes or whether they are occupied by a single plural-positional hole occupying the same hole positions, provision must be made to determine if between several positions there is a connection in the -form of a plural-positional hole. This fact is indicated by the magnet 60-X which is controlled in a manner still to be described. This magnet will be energized each time there occurs a plural-positional hole in a controlling character. The mechanism still to be describedwill determine if holes in the positions I and 11 (Fig. 3) are connected, i. e. if the same form a plural-positional hole, or if there is a plural-positional hole in the positions II and III, and in each of both cases the magnet 60-X will be energized. It will be clearly seen from the previous specification that the magnets 60-1, 60-11 and 60-111 are energized each time if there is a hole on the respective position, independently thereof whether the same forms a single-positional hole or part of a plural-positional hole. If it is now assumed that the positions I and 11 are occupied by a plural-positional hole, the following controlling operations will be effected difiering from those mentioned in the previous specification in which only single-positional holes have been considered: If the arm 31 has left the line 6| after the passage of the I-position under the brush l4, the current circuit of the magnet 60-1 over this line will have been interrupted; since, however, the connection between the plate l3 and brush l4 will not have been interrupted due to the elongated hole passing at this moment under the brush, the magnet 60-1 will further receive current over the previously established stick circuit 29, contact 53 and line 66 and consequently this magnet will remain energized and will still be energized if the 11-position has passed under the brush I4 in which case the arm 31 connects the contact strip 28 with the line 62. Since it has now been assumed that in the 1 and 11 position there is an elongated hole, in the moment 11 a current impulse will flow over line 62 through the magnet 60-11. At the same time, however, the magnet 60-1 is "still energized and accordingly the contact 54 is closed so that a current flows not only from the line 62 through the magnet 60-11, but also over the contact 54 and line 10 through the magnet 60-X back to the common line 52 of all magnets. If then the card passes further down beneath the brush 14, the magnets 60-1 and 60-11 will become simultaneously deenergized since in any case there will be between the II and III position a rib in the record column. It will therefore be seen that in case the I and 11-positions are occupied only by single-positional holes the magnets 60-1 and 60-11 will only be energized, whereas in case these positions are occupied by an elongated hole theimagnet 60-X will be energized in addition to lie magnets 60-1 and 60-11. Similar operations y" ill take place if there is an elongated hole in/the positions 11 and III. In this case, after the arm 31 has left the line 62 after the passage of a hole in the position 11 under the brush M, a stick circuit will have been established from the brush l4 over contact strip 20, line 29, contact 55, line 61 through the magnet 60-11, said stick circuit holding also the contact 56 closed. In this case no current will flow over the contact 54 since there can be only an elongated hole either in the I and II position or in the II and III position. If then after the passage of a hole of the III-position under the brush, the arm 31 connects the line 2'! with the line 63, the magnet Bil-III will be energized and will close its contact 51. Consequently, also a current can flow from line 63 over line 69, contact 51, line 68 and the closed contact 56 (which, due to the elongated hole, is held closed by the magnet 60-II which remains energized) to the line 10 and through the magnet 60--X so that this magnet will again be energized. It will also be seen that in this instance, with single holes in the II and III-positions, only the magnets (SB-II and 60III will be energized while in the presence of an elongated hole on these positions the magnet 6Il-X will be energized.

The arrangement of the shift contacts 9| and of the lines 8! is made in the generally known manner (see for instance U. S. Patent 1,664,539) in such a way that depending upon the adjustment of the control bars 83 in different combinations only a single connection between the line 80 and one of the lines 8| will be selected. If the shift bars 83 of those positions are raised on which according to the scheme of Fig. 3 there is a hole and if in addition thereto the bar 83 of the magnet 6lJ-X is raised in the case the respective perforated character includes an elongated hole, a line will be selectedcorresponding to the meaning of the respective hole combination.

In the preceding specification has been described how under the control of hole combinations ten different controlling actions are obtained which may be used for instance for the control of a printing accounting machine or, as in the described embodiment, for the control of a tabulating machine. However, the invention is by no means limited to ten controlling actions but, according to the particular requirements,

it may be applied in connection with any number of different hole combinations; so for instance Fig. 5 shows the perforation scheme according to which the numerical as well as the alphabetical characters are distinctly represented by hole combinations, the numerals occupying in accordance with Fig. 3 only three hole positions and the letters occupying only five hole positions. Fig. 6 shows a translator which serves in a manner similar to the translator in Fig. 2 for the control of a printing tabulating machine. In the embodiment according to Fig. 6, however, it is assumed that only printing of numbers and numerical data is effected since the letter data must not be added. Provision will therefore have to be made in such a way that for instance for record fields in which only numerals occur a translator and a mechanical device are used as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 while for record columns in which only letters and numerical data occur which need not be added such as the name and account number of a. person, only type bars are provided having numeral and letter type. A record card H adapted to control a translator according to Fig. 6, is shown in Fig. 7; said card contains the name and address of a person to which the numerical data represented in the fields a, b, c and d refer. The name of the person is punched in the left rectangular record field in the lower part of the card while the numerical data are represented by perforations in the adjacent fields a, b, c and d.

The translator shown in Fig. 6 may be controlled in accordance with the scheme of Fig. 5 by five hole positions. The three lower hole positions I, II and III are exactly identical with the previously described hole positions according to Fig. 3 and the control of the translator magnets 60-I, tfl-II and .60-III as well as the control of the auxiliary magnet 60X is efiected in exactly the same manner as has been previously described so that no further reference thereto is necessary particularly in view of the fact that in Fig. 6 the same reference numerals as in Fig. 2 have been used, and accordingly the foregoing specification refers equally well to Fig. 6. The analysis of the positions IV and V is effected in a manner similar to the analysis of the positions I, II and III; the arm 3'! connects in the moment in which these positions pass under the brush M, the lines 64 and 65 respectively with the contact strip 28. In addition to the magnets coordinated to the lower three positions there are, of course, also provided translator magnets 60-1? and 60-V for the upper positions IV and V; these magnets are adapted to be energized over their coordinated lines 64 and 65 respectively if there is a hole on the respective position in the column. The magnets fill-IV and fill-V have shift bars 83 coordinated thereto in a similar way as is the case with the remaining magnets; there is a further magnet 60--Y (to which there is also a shift bar 83 with shift contacts coordinated) provided controlled in dependence upon the magnets Bil-IV and 6llV. Through the different adjustment of the bars 83 by the magnets 60-1 to Ell-V and one of the magnets 6ll-X or Bil-Y only a single connection will be selected between the line 80 and one of the thirty-six lines 8|, the latter corresponding to the ten numerical characters and to the twenty-six letter characters; as may be seen from Fig. 5 there occurs in each controlling character only a single elongated hole so that in each operating cycle, if at all, only one of the magnets 60--X or 60Y will be energized. The magnet Gil-IV has two contacts 13 and 14 coordinated thereto which are closed by an arm 39 as long as the magnet remains energized. The upper plate of the plate spring contact 13 is connected to the line 29 while the lower spring is in connection with the line 64 leading to a contact piece 30'. The lower plate of the contact 14 is connected over line 15 to line 65 and the upper plate of said contact is over a line 12 in connection with the magnet 6|IY, the back line of the same being connected to the common back line 52 of all translator magnets. The energization of the magnets 60I, 60II, Gil-III and 60-X upon the passage of the lower three hole positions I and II and III is effected in the previously described way. If the position IV passes under the brush l4 and if this position is perforated, the magnet 60--IV will be energized and will draw its armature 83 upwardly which is then looked in the upper position. Simultaneously with the energization of the magnet Bil-IV, the contacts 13 and 14 will be closed. Due to the closure of contact 13 the magnet 6ll-IV will again receive a branch current over line 29 which, however, will again be interrupted after the IV-position has left the brush M in case there was only a single-positional hole on this position. Through the closure of contact 14 the line 65 is connected to the line 12. Since, however, the line 65 is open at its contact piece 30', no current impulse can be sent through the line 12 over the magnet Gil-Y in the moment in which the IV-position passes under brush I4. It will also be seen that'due to the closed contact 13 no back current can flow over line 29 or one of the contacts 53 or 55; these contacts are always open if the IV-position passes under the brush I4 (even in case all magnets 60-I, 60II and 60--III have been energized) since according to the scheme in Fig. 5 there is no elongated hole at all provided, occupying the III- and IV-positions. If now the V-position comes under the brush I4 and if there is a hole on this position, the magnet 60-V will be energized over line 65 and will adjust its control bar 83 accordingly. Now, if the preceding IV-position was not punched at all or if only a single-positional hole was provided therein, the contact I4 will be open when the V-position is analyzed and no branch current can flow from the line 65 over line 15 since the contact 14 is open. If, however, on the IV and V-positions there is an elongated hole occupying both positions, the magnets 60-IV and 60V will become energized as will be clearly seen. Due to the elongated hole, however, upon the passage of the card from the IV to the V- position under the brush, the electrical connection between the plate I3 and the brush I4 will not become interrupted so that the magnet 80IV will still maintain its own stick circuit if the position V is already under the brush I4, said stick circuit leading over line 29, contact I8 and magnet 60IV. Therefore, if the V-position comes under the brush I4 and the magnet 60-'V is energized, a current impulse will also flow over the line being in connection with the line 85, over the contact 14 now being closed, the line I2 and through the magnet 80--Y so that this magnet will be energized and will adjust its control bar 83 accordingly.

Now I will briefly refer to the energization of the magnets 60 in accordance with the different perforations: Each of the magnets '60I to 80,V will become energized if there is at all a hole in the respective positions. If the positions I and II or the positions II and III are occupied by an elongated hole, the auxiliary magnet 80- will become energized in addition to the respective magnets 60 coordinated to the hole positions, and ii the positions IV and V are occupied by an elongated hole, in addition to the magnets 60--IV and 60--V the auxiliary magnets 60-Y will become energized. Through the adjustment of the bars 88 in difierent combination only asingle live line from the line 80 to one of the lines 8| will be selected as may be easily verified on the diagram of Fig. 5 and the illustration according to Fig. 6, and this verification will show that the lines 8| designated by numerals and letters correspond to the meaning of the hole combinations as shown in Fig. 5. All lines 8| lead to a commutator generally indicated at I to which they are connected one by one in accordance with their meaning in the sequence of the numerals 0 to 9 and the letters A to Z. The lines 8| are analyzed one by one by a contact arm IOI which rotates in the indicated direction once during each machine cycle and which connects thereby the selected line 8| with the contact strip I02 being connected over line 40 to a control magnet 42. Provision has been made that during a part of the operating cycle during which the arm IOI slides over the indicated insulated portion of the commutator I00. the analysis of the five hole positions is effected by means of the brush I4 so that the translator bars 83 are already adjusted and have already selected a line 8| when the arm IOI begins to analyze the terminal contacts of said lines. Depending upon the line 8| selected by the translator, the magnet 42 will then receive timed differential current impulses in a similar way as has been described in the preceding specification.

Fig. 8 shows a type bar having ten numeral and twenty-six letter type, said bar being adapted to be controlled by means of the translator shown in Fig. 6. Provision would then have to be made in a similar way as shown in Fig. 1 so that the type bars of all columns are raised synchronously with the analysis of the lines 8| and are arrested by means of the control magnets 42 and the stop pawls 4'! at different times during their upward movement; accordingly depending upon the selection of one of the lines 8|, the corresponding type will be adjusted. in printing position and the meaning of said type will exactly correspond to the meaning of the previously analyzed hole combination.

Fig. 9 shows diagrammatically a type wheel as used for instance in telegraph apparatus and the like. The type wheel carries in the usual order ten numerical and twenty-six letter types and the wheel rotates synchronously with the analysis of the terminal contacts of the lines 8| by the arm I0| (Fig. 6); the control magnet 42 actuates the printing lever I02 which impels a paper strip I03 against the type wheel, a ribbon I04 being fed between the paper strip and the wheel. The magnet 42 is energized in the moment in which the arm IOI connects the selected line 8| (Fig. 6) over the magnet 42 with the right hand side 4| of the current source and in this moment also the type corresponding to the meaning of the selected line 8| will be in position opposite the printing cushion of the printing lever I02. If then the magnet 42 is energized the lever I02 will impel the record strip I03 against the rotating type wheel I and accordingly a print will be obtained upon the strip I03 corresponding exactly to the adjustment of the translator and to the meaning of the analyzed hole combination.

While I have shown and described a preferred embodiment of the invention, it will be understood that many changes, and omissions, and alterations, and'substitutions in the mechanism and the manner of operation may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit of the invention.

What I claim is:

In a machine controlled by records having perforated characters in the form of single-positional holes and plural-positional holes and combinations thereof within a predetermined number of hole positions, sensing means, devices controlled thereby and responsive ,to perforated hole positions independently of their occupation by a single-positional or plural-positional hole, another device controlled by said devices when a perforation between adjacent hole positions, indicating a plural-positional hole, is detected, and means controlled by all of said devices for causing a single controlling impulse whose timing is representative of the perforated character.

MICHAEL MAUL. 

